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• Haitians tire of waiting, start own rebuilding (AP)
• Tourists fly out as Machu Picchu begins isolation (AP)
• Argentina's Central Bank president resigns (AP)
• Social forum ends with vows to fight capitalism (AP)
• Niger Delta militants call off truce with Nigeria (AP)
• Breast-milk for Haiti: Why donations are being discouraged (Time.com)
• Blair says no regrets for removing Saddam (AFP)
• Bin Laden blasts US for climate change (AP)
• US soldiers halt violence between guards, looters (AP)
• Nigerian armed militants MEND call off unilateral truce (AFP)
• Seoul newspaper says US citizen seeks aslum in N.Korea (AFP)
• Hughes named Canada flag-bearer for Vancouver Games (Reuters)
• Australian writer boycotts China over jailing of dissident (AFP)
• Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Dodging bombs for a good book in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Among Haiti's Innumerable Dead, A Coffin-Maker Recession (Time.com)
• Climate Change On Obama's Back Burner (OneWorld.net)

Haitians tire of waiting, start own rebuilding (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:24 PM PST AP - Defying pleas to wait for Haiti's reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake.

Tourists fly out as Machu Picchu begins isolation (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:59 PM PST AP - The last young backpackers flew away from Machu Picchu as clouds closed in again Friday, leaving Peru to grapple with flood damage that will close its top tourist site for weeks, or even months.

Argentina's Central Bank president resigns (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:14 PM PST AP - Argentina's Central Bank chief resigned Friday, saying he could do no more to protect the nominally independent institution from the president's efforts to control its dollar reserves.

Social forum ends with vows to fight capitalism (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:43 PM PST AP - Leftists who converged in Brazil to protest what they view as uncontrolled capitalism ended the World Social Forum on Friday with vows to take advantage of the financial crisis to promote a global socialist agenda.

Niger Delta militants call off truce with Nigeria (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST AP - The main militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta called off its cease-fire with the government Saturday morning, dealing a potential death blow to a presidential amnesty program aimed at ending violence that has crippled production in the West African nation.

Breast-milk for Haiti: Why donations are being discouraged (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST Time.com - Thousands of women have been clamoring to donate milk to babies on the Haitian mainland. But for now, at least, that's not the answer.

Blair says no regrets for removing Saddam (AFP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:50 PM PST AFP - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he had no regrets about removing Saddam Hussein after delivering a robust defence of the 2003 invasion of Iraq at a public inquiry into the war.

Bin Laden blasts US for climate change (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:13 PM PST AP - Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.

US soldiers halt violence between guards, looters (AP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:07 PM PST AP - U.S. soldiers halted a violent confrontation Friday between looters and a private security guard who shot and killed one man inside an appliance store and appeared poised to shoot others.

Nigerian armed militants MEND call off unilateral truce (AFP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:27 PM PST AFP - Nigeria's main armed militant group announced Saturday it was calling off its unilateral ceasefire decreed on October 25 in the country's vital oil-producing southern Niger Delta region.

Seoul newspaper says US citizen seeks aslum in N.Korea (AFP) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:43 PM PST AFP - A second US citizen who was detained by North Korea for crossing the border has sought political asylum in the communist state, a South Korean newspaper said Saturday.

Hughes named Canada flag-bearer for Vancouver Games (Reuters) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:33 PM PST Reuters - Speed skater Clara Hughes, the only Canadian to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games, has been selected to carry her country's flag into the opening ceremonies of next month's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Australian writer boycotts China over jailing of dissident (AFP) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:38 PM PST AFP - Award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse said on Friday he would boycott an upcoming tour of China to protest the jailing of dissident critic Liu Xiaobo.

Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.

Dodging bombs for a good book in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:54 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Secondhand bookstores are a storied institution in Islamabad, famous for their ubiquity. In one marketplace alone, Jumbo Books, Old Book Fair, and Mr. Old Books overflow with worn paperbacks; several more stores dot the Pakistani capital.

Among Haiti's Innumerable Dead, A Coffin-Maker Recession (Time.com) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST Time.com - Only the rich can afford coffins nowadays. Many corpses of the poor are piled up on sidewalks to be carried off like garbage

Climate Change On Obama's Back Burner (OneWorld.net) Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:14 PM PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Media Consortium) - In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did he mention the Copenhagen climate conference, where international negotiators struggled to produce an agreement on limiting global carbon emissions.

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